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Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.
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Quit.
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Don't quit.
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Noodles.
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Don't noodles.
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You are too concerned with what was and what will be.
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There's a saying.
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Yesterday is history.
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Tomorrow is a mystery.
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But today is a gift.
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That is why it is called the present.
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To live life, you need problems.
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That's stupid!
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If you get everything you want the minute you want it, what's the point of living?
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I hate to break it to you, but what people call love is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed.
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It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage.
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I did it.
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Your parents are going to do it.
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Break the cycle, Morty.
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Rise above.
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Focus on science.
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You don't have the right to be sad.
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You never even had the guts to tell Margaret how you feel.
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Listen, if you leave things the way they are now, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
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Telling her might not change anything, but at least you'll have closure.
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The key in life is to lie to yourself about reality.
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Smile through everything.
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All the bad things, well, you just pile them away in a place that will come back one day in the form of, I don't know, rage.
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But everything's fine.
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I'll see you in bed.
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Everyone's scared of love, dipshit.
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You learned that in your 20s.
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It takes a very rare, very powerful being to be terrified of happiness.
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Dumb!
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You're dumb.
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That's why you're not scared to be happy.
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The smarter you are, the more you know.
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Happiness is a trap.
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It can't last forever.
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Let's say you meet the love of your life.
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Well, it's still gonna end.
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It's inevitable.
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Whether by the slow pull of a disease or the shock of loose footing on a hiking trail.
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Whether it be the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they're incompatible, or maybe the old stranger in a bar who says the things that need to be said to that person that night.
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The point is, happiness always ends.
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Best case scenario, think about this, best case is that you die at the same time.
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You're so pathetic.
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No matter what side you're on, you're always the loser.
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There's a benefit to losing.
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You get to learn from your mistakes.
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Then why didn't you quit?
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You know I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed.
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Yeah, I stayed.
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I stayed because every time you threw a brick at my head or said I smelled, it hurt.
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But it could never hurt more than it did every day of my life just being me.
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I stayed because I thought if anyone could change me, could make me not me, it was you.
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The greatest Kung Fu teacher in all of China.
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But I can't change you.
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I can turn you into the dragon warrior and I will excuses excuses how am I supposed to trust you
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when all you give me are excuses what are you two gonna learn that your actions have consequences consequences that affect other people like me.
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Don't you two understand?
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I'm about to lose my job.
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You may not care about keeping your jobs, but I care about keeping mine.
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Because if I lose my job, I have nothing.
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Do you hear me?
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I have nothing.
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Hey, Bri.
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Yeah?
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How come you have a gun?
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Please tell me why you have it.
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I said I don't want to talk about it.
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But I want to know.
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Just tell me.
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Come on.
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No.
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Come on, please.
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I keep it in case I ever want to commit suicide, okay?
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Wow.
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Oh.
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Oh, my God.
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You're serious.
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But why, Brian?
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You wouldn't understand.
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You're just a kid.
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I could try.
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I don't know.
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Sometimes it's all too much.
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What is?
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Life, everything, just having the gun here, knowing there's a way out, it helps.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “When Cartoon Characters Gave Us a Reality Check”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: stayed, quit, noodles, excuses, happiness. Deze video bevat 89 zinnen en 668 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:15. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 157 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 11 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
noodle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈnu.dəl/noedel
scare werkwoord/skɛɚ/bang maken, beangstigen
consequence zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/gevolg, consequentie
compel werkwoord/kəmˈpɛl/bedwingen
incompatible bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/onverenigbaar
guts zelfstandig naamwoord/ɡʌts/ingewanden
fade werkwoord/feɪd/verzwakken, verslappen
hike zelfstandig naamwoord/haɪk/wandeling
loser zelfstandig naamwoord/luzɚ/verliezer
inevitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/onvermijdelijk, onafwendbaar
breed werkwoord/ˈbɹiːd/zich voortplanten

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
come back werkwoordterugkomen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • You don't have the right to be sad.
  • I'll see you in bed.
  • That's why you're not scared to be happy.
  • Then why didn't you quit?
  • Don't you two understand?

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 25 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: corrosion /kəˈɹoʊʒən/, reshape /ɹiːˈʃeɪ̯p/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: incompatible /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: strand /ˈstɹænd/, fade /feɪd/, breed /ˈbɹiːd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: incompatible /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/, strand /ˈstɹænd/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als noodle, scare, consequence.

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